Or at least make it so that Senators have to actually, you know, filibuster if they want to stop debate. No more of this "paper filibuster." If you wanna stop big bad Obama that much, you'd better be ready to stand there and talk for 24 hours straight.

If you are a citizen of the United States, then Obama is your president, no matter which party you belong to. Any protests to the contrary are simply the whines of the little biatches of the Republican party. And anyone who agrees with the linked article, or subby's headline, is de facto a Republican.

Here's the thing: If you have a relatively decent degree of smarts, understand how the "separation of powers" provision in that Constitution thingy actually works and realize that the President isn't "king" and doesn't just get to unilaterally enact legislation you can readily understand how Obama is working against a stacked deck to a large degree and still has managed to get things done. On the flip side, you also understand how a obstructionist Republican controlled Congress has attempted to stymie, muffle and bury just about every piece of legislation aimed at jobs creation and economic improvements. (Some of that legislation was identical in nearly every respect to proposed legislation the Republicans had been supporting for years, but now that Obama was on board with it, they just decided to oppose it to damage him politically, - fark the concern about whether it would have been bad or good for the country.)

I know it's hard for Townhall to deal with the fact that you can't fool all the people all the time, but they are about to get a big lesson in that theory come election day.

lawboy87:Here's the thing: If you have a relatively decent degree of smarts, understand how the "separation of powers" provision in that Constitution thingy actually works and realize that the President isn't "king" and doesn't just get to unilaterally enact legislation you can readily understand how Obama is working against a stacked deck to a large degree and still has managed to get things done. On the flip side, you also understand how a obstructionist Republican controlled Congress has attempted to stymie, muffle and bury just about every piece of legislation aimed at jobs creation and economic improvements. (Some of that legislation was identical in nearly every respect to proposed legislation the Republicans had been supporting for years, but now that Obama was on board with it, they just decided to oppose it to damage him politically, - fark the concern about whether it would have been bad or good for the country.)

I know it's hard for Townhall to deal with the fact that you can't fool all the people all the time, but they are about to get a big lesson in that theory come election day.

You've lost all conservative readers....is there anyway you can make your point with pictures?

Congress is blocking Obama, but it's Obama's fault for showing a lack of leadership and initiative.

So Obama goes around Congress and he's a power hungy despot who wipes himself with the constitution

I hope the weather is nice in this alternate universe. The GOP is running Schroedinger's candidate to combat imaginary Schroedinger's President, where every possible course he takes is the wrong course and in fact makes him hitler.

Congress is blocking Obama, but it's Obama's fault for showing a lack of leadership and initiative.

So Obama goes around Congress and he's a power hungy despot who wipes himself with the constitution

I hope the weather is nice in this alternate universe. The GOP is running Schroedinger's candidate to combat imaginary Schroedinger's President, where every possible course he takes is the wrong course and in fact makes him hitler.

This is my favorite, he's a socialist and he'shiatler.....conservatives have been so mindfarked by their own propaganda that they can no longer see the impossibility of this.

Changing the parlimentary 60 vote super majority to defeat a filibusteris on the top of Republican to-do lists.

If/When the Republicans are back in power they don't want this trick being used against them. The Republicans want to pass thier laws quickly.Talking heads figure Democrats don't have the stones to change the filibuster rules first.

thenewmissus:Wow. The republicans are so desperate. I can't wait until the debates. The thread for the debate should be entertaining.

You don't seem to understand how this shiat works. The right believes this stuff. They may be idiots (and they are), but they're idiots who BELIEVE. It's not as if when the debates start, and Obama confronts Romney with actual facts to oppose this bullshiat, the right will suddenly realize the truth and come around. The truth's been there the whole time, and they ignore, and they'll keep doing so. They'll listen to Romney and his bullshiat, believe every word, and come out thinking Romney was the clear victor.

Half our country are idiots who live in a state of delusion...and they think it's the other half. (I didn't specify in this last sentence just for you, right wing trolls. Go wild!)

thenewmissus:Wow. The republicans are so desperate. I can't wait until the debates. The thread for the debate should be entertaining.

All Obama has to do is print out every Politifact ruling for Romney and Ryan in the past 6 months. Just hold it up and say "Can we get the camera to zoom in? See, right here, Mitt, it says you're wrong."

Emposter:thenewmissus: Wow. The republicans are so desperate. I can't wait until the debates. The thread for the debate should be entertaining.

You don't seem to understand how this shiat works. The right believes this stuff. They may be idiots (and they are), but they're idiots who BELIEVE. It's not as if when the debates start, and Obama confronts Romney with actual facts to oppose this bullshiat, the right will suddenly realize the truth and come around. The truth's been there the whole time, and they ignore, and they'll keep doing so. They'll listen to Romney and his bullshiat, believe every word, and come out thinking Romney was the clear victor.

Half our country are idiots who live in a state of delusion...and they think it's the other half. (I didn't specify in this last sentence just for you, right wing trolls. Go wild!)

Emposter:thenewmissus: Wow. The republicans are so desperate. I can't wait until the debates. The thread for the debate should be entertaining.

You don't seem to understand how this shiat works. The right believes this stuff. They may be idiots (and they are), but they're idiots who BELIEVE. It's not as if when the debates start, and Obama confronts Romney with actual facts to oppose this bullshiat, the right will suddenly realize the truth and come around. The truth's been there the whole time, and they ignore, and they'll keep doing so. They'll listen to Romney and his bullshiat, believe every word, and come out thinking Romney was the clear victor.

Half our country are idiots who live in a state of delusion...and they think it's the other half. (I didn't specify in this last sentence just for you, right wing trolls. Go wild!)

Because we live in a dictatorship where the president holds supreme executive power and not some sort of republic with a seperation of powers between the executive, legislative and judicial and checks and balances between the three.

actualhuman:Mentat: Faddy: Mentat: A Senate attempt to and a Tom Coburn filibuster failed the other day 58-44. With the way the Senate is currently set up, one man can essentially shut down the government.

102 senators? Might want to recheck that vote tally.

58-40. But please, focus on the typo instead of the point being made.

To be fair I still have no idea what the first sentence was supposed to say.

"A Senate attempt to end a Tom Coburn filibuster failed the other day 58-44."